When you can't 'Step'

As sometimes happens when your target runtime is Unix.
You see that 'else;'? Nary a blip from the compiler. Almost jumped out the window in frustration. Took me 5 hours before I spotted it, after reading the program line by line endless times. Just wasn't seeing it and the f**king was there all the time staring back, taunting me. I think am getting too old for this